UNC Asheville Hosts A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates on Feb. 28

The Event Featuring Coates, an Award-Winning Author and Journalist, is Free and Open To All

UNC Asheville will welcome award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates to campus for a conversation at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the Kimmel Arena. The event, which will include a reading and question-and-answer session, is free and open to all but requires advanced registration through Eventbrite.

Coates is the author of the bestselling books “The Beautiful Struggle,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” “The Water Dancer,” and “Between the World and Me,” which received the National Book Award in 2015. Over his two-decade career, Coates has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic, where he penned the National Magazine Award-winning 2012 essay, “Fear of a Black President.”

Outside of his work as a novelist and journalist, Coates has enjoyed a successful career as a writer for Marvel’s Black Panther (2016-2021) and Captain America (2018-2021) comic series. 

Coates’s work also includes an on-screen adaptation of “The Water Dancer,” set to be produced by Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt. He is also the screenwriter for DC’s newest Superman film, as well as “Wrong Answer,” which will feature Michael B. Jordan and be produced by Ryan Coogler.

In the fall of 2022, Coates joined the faculty of Howard University as a writer-in-residence and the Sterling Brown Chair in the Department of English. 

This event is part of the Equity & Arts series at UNC Asheville and is sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office, Office of Institutional Equity, Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Key Center, and the Humanities Program.